Project Engineer, Mechanical

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.•Towson, MD

7d•$90,000 - $144,900•Onsite

About The Position

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too. Come Build The World With Us. This is the career you’ve been waiting for your whole life. Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black & Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights. We’re the World’s largest tool company. We design and develop the tools that are used to change the world every day here in our engineering headquarters in Towson, Maryland. Our design teams are involved with every step of the process bringing these world class products to life. From conducting end user research to identify new needs, to designing and prototyping tools to ensure we meet our customers high expectations, to creating robust tests to guarantee the tools we make stand up to the toughest environments, our engineers own every aspect of the process along the way. As a Project Engineer, you’ll be part of our Global Tools & Storage team located in Towson, MD. Specifically, you’ll: Successfully manage projects to achieve all quality, performance, schedule and cost objectives in a cross-functional environment. Independently execute prioritization, planning, scheduling, and tracking of objectives. Partners with cross-functional teams (Product Marketing, Global Sourcing, Reliability, Suppliers, Manufacturing, etc.) to identify and clearly define customer requirements, and translate those requirements into appropriate product specifications Lead a core team of 2-3 engineers/designers to create a product that exceeds the product specifications while developing their skill and mentoring them along the way Recommend sound product design decisions following a thorough analysis of complex data Supervise prototype and engineering builds for engineering and manufacturing teams and initial production lots to ensure that the products are assembled and tested in the correct way to ensure long term product quality Implement design and process controls, conducts root-cause analysis, and apply statistical and Lean Six-Sigma techniques to maintain and improve product quality as problems arise thru the product development cycle Coordinate with Management to ensure programs are on track and identifies risk areas and suggest mitigation options to keep development moving in the right direction Utilize Engineering process to develop and deliver technical design in support of new product development.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with 7+ years of experience.
Demonstrated leadership with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Self-motivated, creative, goal-oriented and good team player
Computer literate; MS Word, Power Point, Excel, FEA, 2D/3D CAD (CATIA experience a plus)
Demonstrated experience with product development: Design, DFM, Prototypes, root cause analysis
Quality – use of statistical tools, process capability, DOE’s, stack-ups
Proven ability to solve complex problems within design constraints
Project Management – planning, scheduling, budgeting, executing, cross functional teamwork/leadership Workflow/routings/BOM’s

Nice To Haves

Experience/training in Project Management preferred.
PMP certification a plus.
CATIA experience a plus

Responsibilities

Successfully manage projects to achieve all quality, performance, schedule and cost objectives in a cross-functional environment.
Independently execute prioritization, planning, scheduling, and tracking of objectives.
Partners with cross-functional teams (Product Marketing, Global Sourcing, Reliability, Suppliers, Manufacturing, etc.) to identify and clearly define customer requirements, and translate those requirements into appropriate product specifications
Lead a core team of 2-3 engineers/designers to create a product that exceeds the product specifications while developing their skill and mentoring them along the way
Recommend sound product design decisions following a thorough analysis of complex data
Supervise prototype and engineering builds for engineering and manufacturing teams and initial production lots to ensure that the products are assembled and tested in the correct way to ensure long term product quality
Implement design and process controls, conducts root-cause analysis, and apply statistical and Lean Six-Sigma techniques to maintain and improve product quality as problems arise thru the product development cycle
Coordinate with Management to ensure programs are on track and identifies risk areas and suggest mitigation options to keep development moving in the right direction
Utilize Engineering process to develop and deliver technical design in support of new product development.
Coordination of internal and external resources
Accountable for managing a program and owning the results

Benefits

competitive salary
comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement.
discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.
Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learning & Development: Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
Diverse & Inclusive Culture: We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
Purpose-Driven Company: You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
Hands on environment: We love tools and using them! We have prototyping, use & handling, testing, inspection and metallurgy labs all right here in Towson.
A company with History. We have been designing tools for long time which means we have a lot of expertise here, but that doesn’t mean we are afraid to try new things. We have a long list of World’s firsts to our credit and we need you to keep that going!
retirement benefits